Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8577

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-11-04 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:27:40
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in the v9fs_read function in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors related to an I/O read operation.